Egg-mailing case.



R. 0. HAMMOND. EGG 'MAILNG CASE. APPLIUATION Mmm DE(1.30,1912.

1,102, 1 91 Patented June 30, 1914.

ROBERT 0. HAIYIMND, Oft? FAJLMINGDALE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGN- MENTS, T TYWACANA. FARMS POULTRY COMIANY, 0F FARMINGDALE, NEW

YORK, A CORPDRATION 0F NEW YORK.

EGG-MAILING CASE.

incensi.

Specieation of Letters '.Patent.

application filed December 30, 1912.

Patented June 30, 1914. Serial No. 739,331.

vTo all 'whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, ltomen'r O. Hummm), acitizen of the United States, resident ot' Farmingdale, in the county ofNassau and State of New York, beve made a cert-am new and use'tulinvention in Egg 'Mailing Gases; and I decla re the following to be afull, clear1 and exact description ot th same, sueh as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use theinvention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and toletters or figures of ret'el ence marked thereon, which `form a part ofthis specification.

Figurei a pers'i'iective view of the invention. Fig. 2 a transversevertical seetion of the same. Fig. 3 .is a detail persiiec tive view ofthe outer part ot the box. Fig. 4l is a similar view oi the inner partof the box. Fig. 5 is a similar view ot' the intermediate part ott thebox.

The invention has relation to egg mailing cases of paper board, and itconsists in the novel construction and combinations ot' parts, ashereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, the numeral ldesignates an open-end slidable cover or outer member; 2 an open-top andopen-bottom rectangular frame or intermediate member, and 3 an innermember 'formed of a flat piece of paper board having a bot-tom fl,upturned plane ends 5, and inturned rectangular' top flaps G meeting attheir inner ends, said inner member being located preferably within theframeQ, so that 'the upturned ends 5 will be held up by `the ends ofsaid frame when the members 2 and 3 are withdrawn or slid end- Wise f omthe cover, the bottom 4 in the withdrawn position of the members closingthe frame 2 at the bottom, and the upturned ends and top flaps servingto keep the bottom in place The construction described will also providetwo plies or thicknesses of paper board upon each side of the box.

Fitting within the rectangular frame and inner member are a plurality ofcomparatively short .u right tubes or cylinders 7 also of paper oard,and designed each to contain one egg, said tubes extendin hat their ends`adjacent to the top aps an bottom of the inner member, and the outer ofthe tubes extending at their sides adjacent to the sides o'l therectangulaiframe and the upturned ends of the inner member.' Each tubehas at each end disk cover 8, fitting within the tube, a cushion t) otsome suitable material such as sheet cotton wool, ot larffer dimensionsor diameter than the tube being first placed over the end of the tubeand the disk cover pressed in place to compress the marginal portion olthe cushion within the tube end between the odg)l of the disk and theside walls of the tube, the marginal portion of the cushion havingprojection outward at 10, beyond the end of the tube, lat orally outwardat 11, over and under the ends of the tube between said ends and thebottom 4 or the to flaps 6, and inward at 1 2, between the adjacenttubes and between the outer of the tubes and the sides of the frame 2,and the u ptu rned ends of the member 3.

lt is preferred to make each member of the box of a. single flat sheetof paper board, the two outer members or parts being provided with laps13 and 14, glued to the bodies thereof, and the. upright tubes havingeach a lap joint, glued together.

What I claim is z- A paperboard box, comprising an opentop andopen-bottom conti1n1ous-wall rectangular intermediate frame, an innerpart having a bottom, upturned end Walls and inturned top flaps, saidbottom and said flaps closing said frame at top and bottom and the endwalls of said frame being located without and in bracing engagement withand npholdrr said upturned ends of the inner part to orm a container,and an open-` end rectangular continuouswal1 cover part havingteleseoping engagement with said container, 4whereby when the container;is partially withdrawn from said cover part one top flap may be turnedback for access to thecontents, the container being held in form.

In testixnon whereof I affix my signature, in presence' o two witnesses.

ROBERT O; HMMOND.

Witncsse.

Geenen M. ANDERSON, STUART Hunan.

